1997 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-63
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Kyosuke Sasaki (68-63)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1997 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1997 season with a record of 68 wins and 63 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 603 runs and surrendered 574 runs. Phil Clark led Osaka with 23 home runs, while Norihiro Nakamura and Karl Rhodes walloped 15 or more, too. Karl Rhodes drove in 102 runs. Phil Clark paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .331. Hideo Koike topped the team with 15 wins, and Akira Okamoto recorded a 2.83 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 1997 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Johnny Ruffin, Norihiro Nakamura, Bob Milacki, Akinori Otsuka, Phil Clark and Karl Rhodes.

Kyosuke Sasaki served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Hideo Koike	15	6	.714	2.96	27	27	0	6	3	0	182.7	137	68	60	14	96	0	136	7	0	6	767
Akira Okamoto	10	6	.625	2.82	30	22	1	3	1	0	146.7	138	53	46	14	50	1	84	8	1	0	610
Motoyuki Akahori	10	7	.588	3.05	57	0	51	0	0	23	97.3	90	42	33	5	44	9	100	5	0	4	428
Isao Koda	9	4	.692	3.69	18	18	0	0	0	0	107.3	123	45	44	7	26	0	58	3	0	1	463
Hiroshi Takamura	8	9	.471	4.76	23	23	0	3	1	0	145.7	171	82	77	9	61	1	95	6	1	3	657
Hiroshi Ishige	4	3	.571	4.21	18	13	3	0	0	0	68.3	61	36	32	6	49	0	41	0	0	3	303
Akinori Otsuka	4	5	.444	2.07	52	0	18	0	0	7	82.7	44	22	19	2	46	5	127	1	1	5	333
Shintaro Yamasaki	3	4	.429	7.81	8	8	0	0	0	0	40.3	64	36	35	8	18	0	18	2	0	3	196
Shigeki Sano	2	5	.286	3.91	52	2	17	0	0	5	73.7	96	38	32	6	24	5	47	1	0	2	326
Satoshi Iriki	1	0	1.000	2.70	6	1	3	0	0	0	13.3	14	4	4	1	1	0	10	0	0	0	50
Shinichi Nishikawa	1	1	.500	3.00	51	0	3	0	0	0	45.0	47	20	15	6	23	2	33	2	0	2	202
Hiroki Sakai	1	5	.167	4.56	10	10	0	0	0	0	49.3	51	27	25	1	28	0	33	1	0	2	224
Masaki Yachi	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
Yoshihiro Seo	0	0		0.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.3	2	0	0	0	6	1	1	0	0	1	26
Ayahito Shinada	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	1	11
Johnny Ruffin	0	0		5.40	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	3	3	3	0	7	0	2	0	0	1	23
Koichi Ikeue	0	0		6.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	3	2	2	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	14
Shinichiro Minami	0	0		7.88	5	0	1	0	0	0	8.0	10	8	7	0	4	0	6	0	0	1	37
Hiroshi Nishioka	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Kat Maekawa	0	0		14.40	5	0	5	0	0	0	5.0	7	8	8	0	6	0	6	0	0	0	26
Eiji Kiyokawa	0	0		15.00	7	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	7	5	5	1	2	0	3	1	0	0	17
Kazuya Shibata	0	1	.000	2.89	54	0	4	0	0	0	56.0	57	20	18	2	26	2	34	3	0	1	249
Yasuo Kubo	0	1	.000	5.12	18	0	7	0	0	0	19.3	19	13	11	3	8	0	13	3	0	2	86
Bob Milacki	0	2	.000	7.30	6	5	1	0	0	0	24.7	37	21	20	3	19	0	9	2	0	1	130
Masao Teramae	0	4	.000	4.72	7	5	1	1	0	0	26.7	27	19	14	3	22	0	8	1	0	1	127
Totals	68	63	.519	3.79	465	135	122	13	5	35	1215.3	1211	574	512	92	574	26	871	46	4	40	5317

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Phil Clark	135	569	526	61	174	27	0	23	93	1	3	29	67	.331	.373	.513	.886	270	23	9	0	5	6
Karl Rhodes	135	607	511	88	157	37	0	22	102	22	8	87	109	.307	.409	.509	.917	260	7	4	0	5	6
Takahisa Suzuki	125	489	436	45	114	18	3	10	53	9	4	42	67	.261	.328	.385	.713	168	10	2	7	2	1
Eiji Mizuguchi	120	488	388	54	110	16	2	7	50	10	1	52	42	.284	.370	.389	.759	151	7	3	42	3	1
Takashi Muto	119	447	390	55	110	13	7	0	29	26	11	25	54	.282	.325	.351	.677	137	0	1	29	2	0
Norihiro Nakamura	128	519	455	54	109	22	3	19	68	3	2	54	105	.240	.325	.426	.751	194	13	5	2	3	5
Naoyuki Omura	97	367	327	53	92	17	5	1	30	15	5	26	44	.281	.335	.373	.708	122	5	1	12	1	0
Kazunori Yamamoto	93	291	250	31	66	7	0	12	37	1	3	35	51	.264	.360	.436	.796	109	6	3	2	1	2
Osamu Abe	81	195	173	16	52	11	0	2	24	2	2	18	27	.301	.359	.399	.758	69	3	0	0	4	1
Tetsuya Matoyama	100	255	223	25	44	6	0	4	22	4	1	13	62	.197	.247	.278	.525	62	0	3	12	4	0
Daijiro Oishi	73	183	151	24	40	6	0	2	13	2	2	22	22	.265	.356	.344	.700	52	2	1	6	3	1
Kenji Furukubo	79	151	136	14	39	11	1	2	11	0	0	9	37	.287	.331	.426	.758	58	0	0	6	0	0
Hironori Suguro	72	151	138	19	38	11	2	0	8	1	2	11	22	.275	.329	.384	.713	53	5	0	2	0	0
Takayuki Murakami	102	142	126	19	34	6	1	4	12	3	4	6	27	.270	.308	.429	.737	54	2	1	9	0	0
Koichi Isobe	62	147	133	15	31	7	0	0	6	3	2	5	23	.233	.262	.286	.548	38	1	1	6	2	0
Hitoshi Nakane	45	133	112	10	21	5	1	1	9	2	1	16	21	.188	.290	.277	.567	31	1	1	2	2	1
Yuji Yoshioka	22	33	27	8	7	1	0	2	4	2	0	3	9	.259	.375	.519	.894	14	0	2	1	0	0
Yukio Arai	13	20	15	1	5	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	1	.333	.316	.400	.716	6	0	0	1	3	0
Jiro Fujitate	13	19	16	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	4	.250	.368	.312	.681	5	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Takumi	6	11	11	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hideyuki Mifune	12	23	20	3	2	0	0	1	2	2	0	1	3	.100	.136	.250	.386	5	0	0	1	1	0
Kenshi Kawaguchi	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuto Moriyama	8	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Yoshida	11	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Satoshi Iriki	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1659	5249	4572	603	1252	223	25	112	580	112	53	458	804	.274	.342	.407	.749	1861	85	37	141	41	24

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Phil Clark	1B	80					.000
Takayuki Murakami	1B	77					.000
Osamu Abe	1B	38					.000
Hideyuki Mifune	1B	6					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	3					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	1B	3					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	105					.000
Daijiro Oishi	2B	46					.000
Takashi Muto	2B	15					.000
Takashi Yoshida	2B	3					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	126					.000
Takashi Muto	3B	108					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	3B	14					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	3B	7					.000
Hironori Suguro	3B	5					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	78					.000
Koichi Isobe	C	33					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	135					.000
Takahisa Suzuki	OF	123					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	98					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	95					.000
Hitoshi Nakane	OF	36					.000
Takayuki Murakami	OF	23					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	17					.000
Osamu Abe	OF	13					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	OF	9					.000
Masahiro Takumi	OF	5					.000
Kazuto Moriyama	OF	5					.000
Hideyuki Mifune	OF	3					.000
Jiro Fujitate	OF	2					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	OF	1					.000
Yukio Arai	OF	1					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	57					.000
Kazuya Shibata	P	54					.000
Shigeki Sano	P	52					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	52					.000
Shinichi Nishikawa	P	51					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	30					.000
Hideo Koike	P	27					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	23					.000
Yasuo Kubo	P	18					.000
Isao Koda	P	18					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	18					.000
Hiroki Sakai	P	10					.000
Shintaro Yamasaki	P	8					.000
Masao Teramae	P	7					.000
Eiji Kiyokawa	P	7					.000
Bob Milacki	P	6					.000
Satoshi Iriki	P	6					.000
Shinichiro Minami	P	5					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	5					.000
Yoshihiro Seo	P	4					.000
Ayahito Shinada	P	2					.000
Koichi Ikeue	P	2					.000
Masaki Yachi	P	1					.000
Johnny Ruffin	P	1					.000
Hiroshi Nishioka	P	1					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	63					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	SS	15					.000
Takashi Yoshida	SS	1					.000
Totals		1857	0	0	0	0	.000

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